Uh, yet another lecture on how to live my life by his omniscience
Nobody's telling anyone how to live their life here, much less you specifically.
Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
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Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#22EU legislation will push them to stop doing some of this (privacy section). Hopefully, the US will follow.
http://www.cnbc.com/2016/02/01/eu-privacy-rules-may-hit-inte...
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#23Uh, yet another lecture on how to live my life by his omniscience
You forgot to sign your post:
Written from a computer running a bunch of software written by his omniscience
Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#24Can any one point out when was this article written ? He has some really valid points in there.
Looks like 2011 or earlier: http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://stallman.org/facebook.h...
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#25I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
This does give it a kind of bearded-conspiracy-theorist-ish vibe that puts me off too. But the underlying point in using the word makes sense and hey, maybe it'll deter some people from using Facebook without knowing exactly what they're subjecting themselves to. I can see such a thing sticking in people's minds.
I think it's going to take someone with greater...ahem...social intelligence than rms to convey the dire reality of facebook's omniscience.
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#26I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
"Usee" is a perfectly cromulent word that could be used here instead.
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#28I couldn't help but cringe every time the word "used" was used for "user" after the first occurence.
He's not wrong. edit: Per emsy's suggestion: I mean that he is just articulating that if something is free, you are the product , except he(stallman) articulates it by changing the noun to reflect his viewpoint. also, I just deleted facebook.
Sad to see you downvoted, because he articulated a common sentiment (if something is free, you are the product) with a stylistic device. I guess your reply should've included that.
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#29I turned off ublock so that I could load the stylesheet. Nope, stallman's site just looks like that. It's actually refreshing, just a radical departure from the status quo. Although, it is RMS so should've expected that...
If only the paragraph width was set to something reasonable (say, 33em) it would be great.
The browser's reader mode helps with that.
Re: Reasons not to use (i.e., be used by) Facebook
#30Uh, yet another lecture on how to live my life by his omniscience
Nobody's telling anyone how to live their life here, much less you specifically.
Although I agree with a lot of what he's saying, every time I listen to him I can't help but hear the judgemental note. He takes his inherently good ideas to the extreme and they become more off-putting than eye-opening